- From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:12:05 +0700
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:29:39 +0700, Anne van Kesteren <fora at annevankesteren.nl> wrote: >>>> One can also say that authors should not have explicit control over >>>> whether hyperlinks are underlined or not. >>> The difference is that underlining is presentation, spell checking is >>> not. The functionality of a link cannot be changed with CSS, >>> likewise spell checking shouldn't either. >> Enabling or disabling spell checking doesn't change the functionality >> of an input. It can still be used to submit arbitrary text to the >> server. But misspelled words in an input with spellchecking enabled are >> underlined with a wavy red line (and the underlining style could even >> be changed by CSS), and that's presentation. > And providing alternate suggestions, synonyms et cetera is too? Having > some kind of "semantic sheets" would be cool I guess for these kind of > things... I'd say "behavior sheets", not "semantic sheets". > I guess it looks like it would fit in CSS because the functionality is > not strictly needed, but I'm unsure if it's really just presentation... Ok, it's not just presentation. It's about behavior, too. But I don't think that it's wrong to use CSS for behavior. In fact, IE already does so, and I think it's one of IE's strengths. -- Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
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